I had another idea for a musical instrument, and I think it worked out pretty well.
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I’ve always been attracted to chording keyboards in theory, but I lack whatever childhood musical training is required to wrap my fingers around them. So I made something else: an arpeggio keyboard. Peggi is an eight-key keyboard that fits on the back of your phone. While chording keyboards require you to press…
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It's like a Let's Play, but for obscure software documentation. I tried to learn Nix, and it was pretty hard. I kept a diary of every command I tried, every wrong assumption that I made, and every realization that I had along the way.
Five years ago, I migrated my VPS from Arch Linux to NixOS. I had no idea what I was doing. I had never used Nix before. I thought I could figure it out. Five years later, I’m still running NixOS. And I still have no idea how it works.
does your ~/bin spark joy?